Paper 2 · Heritage, Taboos and Totems
The traditional healer and diviner of Indigenous Religion, who diagnoses an illness and treats it with herbs, is called a ............ .
Model answer
n'anga
Also accepted: nanga, nyanga, inyanga, nganga
Explanation: The n'anga combines divination with herbalism, establishing the cause of an illness before treating it. Where the cause is spiritual or social, the treatment is a ritual or a settlement rather than medicine, which is why diagnosis comes first.
Derived from ZIMSEC Family and Religious Studies 4047/2, November 2020, Q2